# Fotheringay-Phipps: Pushing Buttons for Fun or Really That Stupid?

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**Created:** [May 12, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fotheringay-phipps-pushing-buttons-for-fun-or-really-that-stupid/496183 "2009-05-12T16:56:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fotheringay-phipps-pushing-buttons-for-fun-or-really-that-stupid/496183/10 "2009-05-12T18:27:13Z")

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> [@Why the big deal over torture?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-big-deal-over-torture/495663/267):
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> I think people who are raped will suffer psychologically a lot more than people who are smeared in feces.
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> Based on what I’ve read about people who’ve been raped.
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> Do you disagree?

Posts like this one are the reason I’ve stopped even attempting to engage him in GD (or anywhere else – Stoid’s lawyer thread has some other great examples of this style of argument). If his views are genuine, he is a despicable, contemptible human being. And if they’re not genuine, well… we all know what that means.

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